#Spix's Disk-Winged Bats
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Spix's Disk-Winged Bats, photographed by Alan Wolf, (source)
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#Spix's Disk-winged bat#Bats of South America#Bat of the day#daily bat#bat#bats#batposting#cute bats#cute animals#look at them go
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Have some of my favourite James Wolfe videos, especially bat videos!
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#OCTAfan says stuff#Greater Bulldog bat#Greater Fishing Bat#Spix's disk winged bat#Yapok#Water opossum#Oilbird#Ask to tag#Video#undescribed#Youtube
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@mystic-131... have my favourite bat species
Spix’s Disk-winged Bat (Thyroptera tricolor)
These bats are unique for more than just the suction cups on their wings that they use to roost in rolled up leaves. Unlike most other bat species they roost upside up. That's right, in the photo above, the bats are looking up at you.
Image description: A group of fluffy brown puffball-looking bats roosting in a rolled up green leaf (Heliconia) using tiny suction cups on their wings to hang on as they look up at the camera
Image source: Christian Ziegler
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Favourite species of bat, if you have any? My favourite are Spix's Disk winged bat, with either Sir David Attenborough's Myotis or Spectral bat being my second favourite species.
Also opinion on Black Resin Protagonist? I think you'll like them. The game is reverse horror with some flashing lights though so be careful.
im a huge fan of animals that are Huge for their species (tarantulas, literally any Giant Jellyfish) or are like. exceptionally tiny, so flying foxes are probably my favorites! i'm not actually that educated on bat species (even tho my fursona is a bat) so this might change one day
2. i like them! i think they look cool :]
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Look at his nerf dart hands
(Spix's disk-winged bat)
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well there's a forum which has a LOT of animal-daemons and what it'd mean for them to have that daemon. generally, i don't see maddox having a domestic dog daemon, mainly because of the "expressive, communicative" nature, because we know maddox will literally pretend to have a crush on her brother on tv instead of saying "hey, i'm a lesbian" and/or "hey, that's my brother"
i'm making a list of possible maddox daemons, and though i'm still looking, here's what i have so far:
https://daemonpage.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=23042 (silky sifaka)
https://daemonpage.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=23799 (white-sided jackrabbit)
https://daemonpage.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=24012 (common vampire bat)
https://daemonpage.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=23962 (spix's disk-winged bat)
https://daemonpage.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=24228 (house mouse)
feel free to look for urself tho!!! these are just suggestions :)
friend, have you ever heard of his dark materials?
I have. The concept of the daemons is amazing. I have not quite gotten through the whole trilogy tho.
My tiny mind was to busy getting distracted by applying the world-rules to other fandoms....as you do
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I've been debating between two forms. can u compare a Honduran white bat daemon vs a spix's disk-winged bat? thank you
It looks like the spix is a little more assertive than the Honduran. The Honduran is largely passive, and while the spix is definitely conflict-avoidant as well, it’s more likely to stand up for itself if you cross its boundaries. Hope this helped! They’re very similar bats haha
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Some of your best blessed/cursed bat facts?
spix’s disk-winged bats have literal suction cups on their wings and feet that let them stick to smooth surfaces like a sticky-hand toy!
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Who's what in this or at least what you've figured out? I think this is really interesting!
!Warning Long Post!
Oh gosh really?! Oh thank you! I love it when people actually like it! I'm grinning like an idiot right now you don't even know!
Right so, I've actually figured out a lot of the characters, so this is going to be a bit of a long post, hope you don't mind.
O!Ciel - Eyelash Pit Viper
Sebastian - Northern Raven
Mey Rin - Northern Flying Squirrel
Finnian - White-Sided Jackrabbit
Bard: European Grey Wolf
Tanaka - Great Grey Owl
Lizzie - Sable Mitt Ferret
Madam Red - American Mink
Grelle - Ethiopian Wolf
Undertaker - Common Civet
Will - Zone-Tailed Hawk
Ronald - Marine Otter
Edward - Beauceron
Frances - Snow Goose
Alexis - Fjord Horse
Claudia - Ocelot
R!Ciel - Fennec
Othello - Scottish Wildcat
Alan - Russian Blue
Eric - Fallow Deer
Claude - Tasmanian Devial
Hannah - Mountain Lion
Soma - Silky Sifaka
Agni - American Black Bear
Lau - Lumholtz Tree Kangaroo
Ran Mao - Desert Night Lizard
Rachel - Pink-Headed Fruit Dove
Vincent - Honey Badger
Alois - Pen-Tailed Tree Shrew
Abberline - Arctic Fox
Joker - Ring-Tailed Lemur
Dagger - Wire-Haired Dachshund
Doll - Sugar Glider
Beast - European Rabbit
Jumbo - Cockatiel
Wendy - Fairy Possum
Peter - Golden Lion Tamarin
Snake - Paradise Tree Snake
Maurice Cole - Blue Morpho Butterfly
Joanne - Southern African Hedgehog
Bluewer - Elf Owl
Greenhill - Black-Backed Jackal
Violet - Spix's Disk-Winged Bat
Wolfram - Polar Bear
That's all I've got so far, still missing a lot of Weston Boys and the blue cult arc characters. And some of the green witch arc ones too!
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Spix’s Disk-Winged Bat (Thyroptera tricolor)
I chose a difficult photo reference this time, because these lil dudes look exactly like screaming puffballs with stick-arms from this angle... On the plus side, it’s my first art with more than one bat! Double the bat double the fun double the flavor!
If you have followed this blog for a while, these bats may look suspiciously familiar, especially those round pads on their wrists. But these are not close relatives to the sucker-footed bats in family Myzopodidae- they’re one of five species in a different family, Thyropteridae. And they evolved their sucker-feet completely separately!
The great irony is that, unlike the sucker-footed bats, which use wet adhesion, these bats DO use actual suction to stick to leaves. They have four beautifully round little suction cups on their wrists and ankles, along with reduced thumbs and barely-functional tiny feet. (Feet are unnecessary when you have suction cups.) A ring of cartilage surrounded by muscle allows these bats to contract their suckers to create suction. Like the sucker-footed bats, they prefer to roost head-up, but unlike them, they are able to roost pointing in any direction because they don’t slide around.
The force generated by the bats’ suction cups is so strong that they can support their whole weight hanging by just one.
Disk-winged bats roost in curled up leaves of plants such as Heliconia, and use the furled trumpet shapes of the leaves to amplify their calls to other bats flying nearby. They have to frequently change roosts, as the leaves they sleep in quickly mature and unfurl, so recognizing the individual calls of their family members is crucial and helps them regroup after a night of hunting insects alone.
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#Spix's Disk-Winged Bat#Bats of Central America#bats of South America#Bat of the day#daily bat#bat#bats#batposting#cute animals#cute bats#You love to see them#Lil' sucky cup feets
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... Kind of want to ramble yet again-
Also silly reblog game but... favourite animal species by grouping?
Mine are:
Invertebrate: Pink Spirit moth and/ or Sulawesi Moon Moth
Mammal: Thylacine, jerboa or Spix's Disk-winged Bat
Reptile: King Cobra, Komodo Dragon or Caimans
Bird: King of Saxony Bird of Paradise or shoebill
Amphibian: Olm
Fish: Thresher sharks or Epaulette sharks
@mystic-131, @spectralgecko, @indiestsnake and anyone else who wants to participate!
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got bored with gh, so have this
hotch - fennec fox
gideon - snow goose
spencer - spix's disk-winged bat
emily - dingo/caracal
elle - fossa
jj - common eastern firefly
garcia - house finch
derek - common nightingale
rossi - australian shepherd
luke - marine otter
some are iffy, this was just a quick go through
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Spix’s disk-winged bat (Thyroptera tricolor)
Spix’s disk-winged bat (Thyroptera tricolor), is an insectivorous[2] species of bat in the family Thyropteridae.[3] Although this species is unevenly dispersed, it is widespread and is therefore considered as having a “least concern” status on the conservation list.[1] The most prominent anatomical feature of this bat, separating it from other bats, is the presence of disks on its thumbs and hind feet. These circular disks act as suction cups, allowing the bats to cling onto and move along smooth surfaces.[3] Unlike most bats, T. tricolor clings head—up from its roost. This phenomenon is observed in six bat species which occur among two families, Thyroptera spp. and Myzopoda spp. The former are known as disk—winged, whereas the latter as sucker—footed. Although the two families represent an occurrence of parallel evolution, the manner in which their unique adhesive anatomy is utilized differs morphologically.[4]These bats cling head—up to the smooth inner, ventral surfaces of the rolled up leaves with openings at the top, of Heliconia, sometimes Calathea, as well as other similar plants, using their adhesive disks.[2] This manner of roosting is said to facilitate rapid escape in the event of a potential disturbance.[5] The bat’s disks take the shape of concave cups, and are supported by an internal cartilaginous plate. An extrinsic muscle, the flexor pollicis brevis, attaches to the plate, such that contraction of the muscle alters overall disc shape,[4]creating suction. In order to maintain the integrity of the disk, T. tricolor is observed to groom the disk, by frequently licking it. In addition to that, the disk contains sweat glands which discharge onto its peripheries, thereby maintaining it in a constantly moist condition.[3]
source-wikipedia and calphoto database
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Bats use leaves as megaphones to call home
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http://www.batsrule.info/2016/08/bats-use-leaves-as-megaphones-to-call.html
Bats are climbing inside curled leaves and using them to amplify sound, marking the first time an animal has been observed using a tool to increase its vocalization range. A recent study has shown that Spix's disk-winged bat uses the shape of the leaves to boost the sound of both incoming and outgoing calls.
The tiny bats — so named for cute little suction disks on their wings — roost inside curled-up leaves. To identify the correct roosting spot, they call out: when that call is met by a chirped response, they know they've found home. The study, published by the Proceedings of the Royal Society, found that both call and response sounds were amplified by the shape of the leaves. Outgoing replies from roosting bats were faintly boosted by the leaves' trumpetlike effect; incoming calls from flying bats were significantly increased in power as sound waves were funneled down the leaves' lengths.
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